Convert to Islam or die!

I wonder if anyone else thinks that the recently released FOX news reporter Steven Centanni disgraced himself when he converted to Islam at the end of a gun? Something to think about isn't it?

I say it is Gutless! Absolutely gutless! What would you have done? What would I have done? I would have told the savages that kidnapped me that I'm not converting to a backward religion of violence that celebrates the killing of people that don't think like me, I've been a Christian all my life and now in my last moments on earth you expect me to flush it down the toilet? Shove it up your ass! As a stubborn crusty old sergeant, I think I can safely say, I'd either not be a muslim right now, or I'd be dead!

If I would have converted to Islam, I would at least hope I would come back to my family ashamed of myself. But more than that, I would expect my country to be disappointed in me. I truly hope that my country would classify my conversion to Islam as a convenient act of cowardice.

As of yet, I have noted no sign from Centanni of even a little shame. Lets just get down to brass tacks here shall we? Centanni took the cowards way out. He did it to save his precious hide. And worse yet, I see no indication that our society sees his conversion as an act of cowardice. This is an indication of how spineless Americans have become. We don't even seem to recognize categories of courage or cowardice any more.

What does this say about us? Americans are willing to convert to Islam in the face of adversity? Gutless! Centanni only served to deepen the opinion of our enemy that we want to live so badly that we will convert to Islam when faced with torture or death.

Another nail in the coffin America. Just another nail in the coffin. Wake up! We are in a fight for our very survival!

Support the troops!

I know Iraq hasn't turned out quite like we were told it would. But I want America to think about something. Just because the going has become tough doesn't mean we should give up, cut and run, whatever you want to call it. All it means is; the going has become tougher and we knew that it would. This is an insurgency, and historically an insurgency is a tough nut to crack.

The one thing that should be foremost in the minds of every American is that our troops need and deserve our unwavering, total support. Americans, with the exception of higher fuel prices and inconveniences of additional security measures at airports have not been asked or required to sacrifice anything. We should be exceedingly grateful to our troops, who have taken 100% of the sacrificing in this war on their shoulders alone, they are sacrificing, we aren't. Except for the occasional homemade billboard displaying "We Support Our Troops" or the yellow magnetic stickers on vehicles, I don't see an outpouring of support for our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coast guardsman and frankly as a combat veteran myself this just flat out pisses me off. Don't they deserve our support no matter what our individual opinion of the war is? I hear it time and again, "I support the troops but not the war," but nobody has been able to explain how to do that, I call bullshit on them!

How has the war impacted your lifestyle here at home? What's the beef really? Be honest about this, your life has hardly been negatively impacted at all with very few exceptions and those are more inconveniences than sacrifices. What we have in Iraq, are dirty, filthy, scum of the earth, murdering bloodthirsty, power hungry terrorists, mufisden, who deliberately murder innocent Iraqis, kindnap civilians, cut the heads off of innocents and desicrate the dead in an effort to do exactly what seems to be happening, to divide Iraq along sectarian lines, and scare and demoralize the Americans back home. Why are we giving the enemy exactly what he wants? Did you not understand the nature of these animals? We have come to a crossroad. What will America do? What are YOU willing to do?

As for me? I'm supporting the troops as I always have. I will support their mission as well, for the two cannot be separated. I'll continue to write on my little blog, and call for the redoubling of our efforts in Iraq. That means sending more troops to Iraq to get this civil war thing under control, to deny freedom of movement to the mufisden, to expose them as the liars they are, and to provide adequate security for the Iraqi people. To do that, we must make some adjustments to our strategy and tactics. I think the prime concern should be in providing a secure environment in Iraq, to do that we have to have Soldiers everywhere. They need to be visible to the Iraqi people, they need to mingle with average Iraqis, to build good relations, the Iraqi people need to get to know our Soldiers as people, not just Ninja Turtle looking stormtroopers laden with battle gear stuck under a kevlar helmet passing by on patrol, this does not build trust.

There is one basic reason for the current situation in Iraq and that is that we failed to project our military might in sufficient strength and numbers to control the terrain, towns and cities of Iraq. Our troops are not being out-fought, they aren't being out-thought, however in the strategic realm, our civilian leaders seem to be stuck in reactive mode. The insurgents have the initiative. Americans need to demand we fight this war harder! Demand we fight seriously with every means at our disposal rather than whining like whipped puppies to withdraw! My God, I can't for the life of me figure out what happend to America's backbone!

We are just a few adjustments away from turning things around in Iraq permanently. Insurgencies have been defeated before and this one can be defeated too. President Bush warned us early on that this war would be a long one and it would take resolve to see it through. Back then the Congress and the American people supported him in this endeavor. Why have we turned out back on him, and our troops?

Everyone knows the the mainstream media lie. There are multiple instances of prominent media personalities being caught red handed lying, even manufacturing documents to damage the president's reputation. Everyone knows the media sensationalizes, everyone knows they will tell the tragic story while ignoring the boring good news, highlight the alleged war atrocities as though they were fact, they are quite content in sullying the reputation of our military over unsubstantiated accusations, painting our recruiters as rapists and thugs who press kids into the military, it's crap! The media is every bit as culpable for the drop in support of the war effort as anyone, probably more so. But they could care less, it gets ratings and to the media moguls, that's what its all about, that's all that matters, and Americans are sucking it up. If today's media were reporting on world war II, do you think we would have had the guts to stick with it? Close your eyes and imagine Dan Rather informing the country of American casualties at Iwo Jima, imagine him describing the landing at Normandy, The Axis would have won and Jews might be extinct. Imagine the main stream media reporting the Civil War. The media would have taken a neutral stance on the issue of slavery no doubt. And would have supported the Confederates in their right to secede from the United States. Face the facts America, we knew this war would get tough at some point and we would have to adapt, innovate and overcome, we have always had to do that, in every war we've ever been involved in! Face the fact America, the main stream media doesn't mind lying to you if it gets them ratings. Think for yourself! Terrorism isn't going away anytime soon, even if we gave up in Iraq today!

Remember your roots, remember your history! Forget about what Europeans think about us, how do they impact your life? Do you think they really care about us? Screw the UN! What have they done for America lately? Remember what our ancestors faced, remember the sacrifices that every day Americans made in support of the troops back then, and that you have sacrificed nothing. At least not yet. But if we give up in Iraq, we will feel the ramifications for generations, and we'll fight them again (if we survive), you can count on that, only next time we might be fighting them in our own backyards. You had better wake up America, nothing can stand in the way of a united American people. The only reason we will lose in Iraq is because the folks back home gave up on the troops. Don't let that happen!

Lets talk about Democrats

Before the euphoria over the earth shaking victory of Ned Lamont over Joseph Lieberman in the Connecticut primary, the liberal Democrats have had cold water rudely splashed in their faces. How can this be? Joe Lieberman is now polling in front of Ned Lamont in the Connecticut general election campaign. But the liberals had not finished slapping each other on the back for this stunning anti war referendum, this clear cut rebuff of President Bush's war in Iraq! The polls are suddenly not to be trusted! Maybe the Connecticut voters at large know something about Ned Lamont that the rest of America doesn't. Allow me to offer my opinion of this "cut and run" spineless liberal; Ned Lamont is not a serious man. His family background suggests at best a tradition of tone-deafness to threats from America's enemies. He is the grand-nephew of Corliss Lamont, an infamous Stalinist who , if he was not, as he claimed he was not, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, arguably cheated the party of dues payments. This is not to suggest the sins of the ancestor should be visited upon the child, but it is legitimate to notice when failure to take the measure of our enemies runs in the family of a would-be U.S. Senator, if the candidate himself today appears to be carrying on that tradition. And I also happen to think Ned Lamont hates the military. He deserves a drubbing in the general election.

I apologize to those of you who, like me, knew what was going to happen in Connecticut. I am a bit disappointed that I must explain this, but how could a liberal not realize it? As is normally the case, liberals are in denial, they continue to burrow their heads ever deeper into the sand, exposing their backsides. And Lieberman is preparing to kick it but good.

I am an independent voter, I don't carry water for either party. But I'm sick and tired of the liberals who hold Republicans to a higher standard of conduct then they do themselves. So, if any liberals read this, allow me to give you a few pieces of advice that might help the Democrats in the upcoming election cycle.

Get rid of your tired, old, worn out, failure of a campaign strategy. Dump it, have you not learned the lesson? It isn't working and it won't work this time either.

For the last thirty years or so all I've ever heard from Democratic candidates is; Republicans are bad, Republicans are evil, Republicans want to take away your civil rights, constrain your liberty, force you to go to church, take money from your pay check, allow the ultra rich to get away with not paying taxes, cut social programs, cut education, increase military spending, start wars, etc, etc, etc. When should I expect these bad things to happen?

Tell me this liberals, because as an independent voter I have no problem casting a ballot for a Democrat. But what you have consistently failed to do is tell me why I should vote Democrat. All I've ever heard from liberals is why I shouldn't vote for Republicans. But I've learned through trial and error, that voting for something is far better than voting against something. And that's basically it. So, this begs the question; why haven't the Democrats tried to convince me why I should vote for one of them?

When I talk to Republican friends of mine, they have no problem in explaining their core values and vision for America, they can run it down for me in thirty seconds. But my Democrat friends can't do that. Most of them are filled with so much angst and anger that all they can do is spew a hateful diatribe against President Bush and Republicans. But they can't articulate their core values or their vision for America, they simply cannot do it. This leads me to the conclusion that they don't have core values. When I look at the Democratic party, I see a loose conglomeration of single issue activist groups, all huddled under the Democratic umbrella, and the Democratic leadership doesn't know what to do with them. They dare not alienate any of them. So the Democrats have no choice but to cater to the demands of these diverse one issue groups in the hope to keep them in the camp. Promise them anything until you get what you want.

How is it that I hear that prominent Democrats are holding meetings and conferences in remote locations to figure out what their core values are? What their message should be? Because, they don't have core values.

I hear liberals constantly saying things like, "we need to set a clear agenda" " we need to get the country going in the right direction." that's all well and good and the Democrats will capture their base, but that's not going to get any of them elected.

The liberals are cock sure that anti war sentiment will grow under their care and that alone will sweep Democrats into Congress and the Oval Office. But if you liberals refuse to heed the lesson of the Connecticut primary and the looming Joe Lieberman victory in the general election, you don't deserve to become the majority in Congress, or to win the White House, because your just plain dumb if you don't get it. The American voter doesn't want to be reduced to voting for the lesser of two evils, they want to vote for something. The liberals are forgetting about our booming economy, low unemployment, the fact that we have not had another terrorist attack on our soil, and so on and so on, etc, etc. If, the American voter is reduced to voting for the lesser of two evils, they will be more likely to vote incumbent. And the Democrats will be left scratching their heads once again and behind closed doors lamenting how stupid the average American is, that he could be so easily duped by the Republicans. When the real reason is, the Democrats don't stand for anything.

The Democrats are actually positioned by dumb luck to do well in the upcoming elections, but they aren't smart enough, they aren't disciplined enough to knock off the negative politics and focus on themselves, to find their message, articulate their agenda and how they plan to implement that agenda.

You watch, Joe Lieberman will win the Connecticut general election, I predict that officially here and now. Democrats will call me stupid, and ignore all of the warning signs, they won't change their tactics and will end up on the short end of the stick again. You can bet on it, just sit back and enjoy the Democrats in the center ring.